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Wyche said she is “honored” to take on the role and excited to see what space holds in the future. “I think in the next 20 years, we’re going to see humans on Mars.” she said. “We’re currently building hardware systems that will have the ability to take us further into the solar system than we’ve been before.”
As director, Wyche will lead a center that is central to NASA’s human spaceflight missions and home to the nation’s astronaut corps, International Space Station mission operations, the Orion Program, among others, NASA said in a news release. Petro served as deputy director of Kennedy Space Center since 2007 before being named acting director earlier this year after previous director Bob Cabana was promoted to NASA’s associate administrator.
NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced Wednesday that Janet Petro will serve as the new director, making the first woman to lead Kennedy Space Center, WKMG reported. She will oversee the center’s spaceport, supporting both commercial customers and NASA’s science and human exploration missions, WKMG reported.
During a Minority Student Education Forum in Summer 2010, Kennedy Space Center Deputy Director Janet Petro talks to hundreds of fifth- through 12th-grade students.
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